In its Q1 financial report, social casino company DoubleDown Interactive said that its revenue had gone up for the first time in eight quarters.
 Scout Gaming Q2 DoubleDown said that the "solid" Q1 results were due to the company's strong business strategy, pointing out that it often had adjusted EBITDA margins of over 30% and "significant" cash flow.

 Keuk Kim, the CEO, said that the company was still doing well since players were still very interested in the business's main social casino game, DoubleDown Casino. since of this, the company planned to focus on making more money from players.  This will be done by adding additional features that will be available throughout the casino.

 DoubleDown Q1 claimed that in the future, they would focus on making more money from players.
 Kim also hinted that the organisation might be moving into new areas in the coming year.

 "We are also using money to grow our business into new gaming areas like igaming through our planned purchase of SuprNation, which we expect to close later this year," he said.

 DoubleDown's revenue fell in Q1 compared to the same time last year.
 The company made $77.6 million in revenue over the three-month period, which is 9.2% less than the $85.5 million it made in the first quarter of 2022.  But the results were better than the $76.2 million that DoubleDown posted in Q4 2022, as compared to the previous quarter.

 The company cut its operational costs from $60.8 million in the same period last year to $52.2 million this year.  DoubleDown said that this was because of lesser sales, which led to lower costs of revenue, as well as cheaper marketing and amortisation costs.

 A one-time impairment charge of $270.0 million in 2022 had a big effect on the company's results for the year.  

 DoubleDown's adjusted profits before interest, tax, depreciation, or amortisation (EBITDA) also went down a little, down 5.6% from the $26.9 million the company made in the previous period.  On the other side, the adjusted EBITDA margin went up from 31.5% to 32.8%.

 The company noted that the drop in adjusted EBITDA was due to decreased sales in the preceding period. The greater margin was mostly due to lower marketing costs in the same time.

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 The average revenue per daily active user for DoubleDown's internal metrics went up from $0.97 in the first quarter of 2023 to $1.03.

 In the end, the business made more money throughout the course of the year.  In the first quarter of 2023, the company's net income was $23.7 million, which is 28.1% more than the $18.5 million it made in the same quarter the year before.

 In the first quarter of DoubleDown, the company signalled that it would do more mergers and acquisitions (M&A) or investments.
 Kim implied that the corporation was in a good place to do more mergers and acquisitions (M&A) or make investments.

 "Our ongoing efforts to improve our core social casino business have put DoubleDown in a position to consistently generate attractive annual free cash flow," added Kim.

 "Because of this, we have a strong balance sheet with over $100 million in uncommitted capital. This gives the company a lot of options for how to use its resources to increase shareholder value."

 "We're off to a great start this year, and we think we have the right strategy and operational plans in place to keep doing well for the rest of 2023."